[Morphological changes in the small intestine of rats after its temporary exclusion from blood circulation]

The experiments were performed in 56 albino rats (15of them served as a control. The small intestine was excluded from the blood circulation for 45minutes and then pieces of the proximal and distal parts of the intestine were taken forhistological and histochemical study. It was shown that such a term of anemia resulted indeep but reversible changes in the mucous sheath and in the intramural nervous apparatus of thesmall intestine. The state of the organ wall became normal in 15 days after operation.